What's Your Call Sign?

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:01 pm

Our Top-Ten (in no particular order) Favorite Call Signs:
Capt. Jerry "Pagan" Temple
Capt. Walter "Numb" Scull
Lt. Shane "Wasted" Tallant
Cdr. (then Ltjg.) Paul "Water" Mallon (VF-151, mid-'70s)
Lt. Pete "Rebel" Yelle
LCdr. Dan "Undra" Cheever
LCdr. Tom "Goat" Huerter (Tie with Lt. Ken "Goat" Farmer)
LCdr. Chris "Tread" Saufley
Lt. Mark "Mutha" Hubbard
Lt. Tom "Butts" Tench

There are more call signs at the bottom of the link.

http://safetycenter.navy.mil/MEDIA/appr ... efault.htm

Bruzilla · Post by **Bruzilla** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:39 am

My callsign is my login, Bruzilla. I got it during a det to Kadena, Okinawa. My crew and I were in this store, and I turned a corner and ran smack into a Japanese couple who looked to be in their 70s or so. I'm 6'6" tall, and they were about five feet even or so, and my appearance really startled them as seeing someone taller than about 5'6" in Japan was pretty rare (there are pictures of me all over Japan. Everytime I was out on the street, people would ask if I would allow them to have their picture taken with me. It was wierd.).

So this elderly Japanese man points up at me and starts saying something in Japanese, and his wife starts yammering back, and my crew is just cracking up because they said it looked like a scene from a Godzilla movie where the Japanese citizens are pointing up and saying "Godzilla!" So, since my first name is Bruce, they changed it to Bruzilla and I've had that callsign ever since.

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:16 pm

I can just picture that.......ahhh Godzilla!!!!!